If you have been around technology in the 80’s you may know that Megabytes=Power.
2k 8k, 16k etc… was what were upgrade options for RAM for my computer.

Floppy disks were the mass storage option and it started out as an 8 inch floppy. The 5.25 inch floppy arrived and was much smaller than the 8 inch disk. When the 3.5 inch disk came out, it was like heaven! Not only was it small, it stored 1.44MB of data. I bought a 200MB hard drive and paid $400 bucks for it. I had bragging rights for a long time! Like any guy who ponders about the next level, Gigabytes were untouchable although 1 Gigabyte had drives were around, but they were very expensive! I saw one at that time for $30,000! I can buy a well equipped Mini Cooper with that. After the Gigabyte era came the Terabyte drives. Since we are now caught up and currently at 3TB drives, what’s next? How about after that? Well, here is the breakdown.

8 bits = 1 Byte
1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1024 Exabyte = 1 Zettabyte
1024 zettabyte = 1 Yottabyte

Apparently, there isn’t anything that has been officially named after Yottabyte yet, but I am sure we will get there soon enough. To think that I have 32GB in my cell phone that I throw around and to know that a 1GB hard drive went for $30,000, my cell phone could have been worth over $960,000 bucks! Can’t wait to have a Yottabyte on my keychain…